Carrying Capacity's New Guise
Folk Models for Public Debate and Longitudinal Study of Environmental Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3750681 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Cliggett (0000-0002-1261-6625, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-19 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/at.2001.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W4229965474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 30 |
Current public debates about the environment often assume a clear relationship between resource availability and population growth: more people mean fewer resources. Over the past three decades, scholars in the social and natural sciences have disassembled the notion of carrying capacity to demonstrate that relationships between humans and their ecosystems are more open, fl uid, and complex than the concept allows. Despite scholarly recognition of the problems with carrying capacity, the term, and its underlying logic, endures. By reframing the concept as a folk model, we continue to highlight ecological relationships and advance arguments for conservation, but also acknowledge the complexity of human-environment links which formal applications of carrying capacity ignore
Biology · Carrying capacity · Climate change · Cognitive reframing · Economics · Environmental change · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Natural (archaeology) · Natural resource · Political science · Population · Resource (disambiguation) · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Water Resources and Sustainability
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2015 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |